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Contents:

• ‘MAGIC MIKE’ IS BIG DRAW FOR GAY MEN
• MATTHEW MCCONGHEY TALKS 'MAGIC MIKE,' GAY FANS AND HOW HE'D REACT IF HIS KIDS CAME OUT
• MAGIC MIKE XXL’S PERFECTLY SCULPTED GAY PANRG
• HI N MEN GO TO SEE THIS SHOW??? I HAVE GAY...
• MAGIC MIKE'S MATT BOMER TALKS ABOUT BEG OUT AS GAY: WHAT BROUGHT HIM TO TEARS?
• MATT BOMER ON BEG GAY: 'MAGIC MIKE' STAR TALKS ABOUT HIS SUBTLE COMG OUT
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

‘MAGIC MIKE’ IS BIG DRAW FOR GAY MEN

Now that we know a third movie, Magic Mike's Last Dance, will be g soon, we've got some ias for queer and gay actors we'd love to see jo the st! I'm a gay guy who'll be Vegas for a uple of nights October and I'd love to see the show. There were a few gay upl there too.

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Clearview Chelsea Cemas, a ceplex Manhattan, had bee a makhift gay bar. “It’s a fun night out wh a bunch of gay iends to go see a movie about hot boys, ” said Aaron Rhyne, 32, a theatril projectn signer who saw the film wh about 10 iends. While the scene at Chelsea Cemas may have been more r than most, terviews around the untry dited that gay men have been flockg to “Magic Mike” numbers not seen sce the release of “Brokeback Mounta” 2005.

MATTHEW MCCONGHEY TALKS 'MAGIC MIKE,' GAY FANS AND HOW HE'D REACT IF HIS KIDS CAME OUT

But unlike that film, about two wboys love, there’s nothg explicly gay about “Magic Mike. Venne, 49, who liv Mneapolis and saw “Magic Mike” on Sunday wh 16 gay men and one straight woman. A middle-aged gay guy the dience might as well be wearg a trench at.

” The movie has been on the gay radar sce the productn was announced this year.

Tatum, one of s producers, appeared on the ver of the gay magaze Out, and the trailer has been posted on gay blogs. The film was also promoted at gay pri events across the untry last month, like the Wt Hollywood, Calif., para that featured a “Magic Mike” float. At the Chelsea Clearview over the weekend, where a stripper-theme photo exhibn was on display, giveaways clud “Magic Mike” clothg, posters and dog Kroll, print for worldwi marketg for Warner Brothers Pictur, said the stud ordated a “well-ncentrated and tailored” mpaign tend to pture gay moviegoers’ attentn.

MAGIC MIKE XXL’S PERFECTLY SCULPTED GAY PANRG

Kroll said, once beme clear there was tert among gay men.

HI N MEN GO TO SEE THIS SHOW??? I HAVE GAY...

“Every sgle one of my gay iends was talkg about how they uldn’t wa to see and how geo Matt Bomer is, ” she said, referrg to the gay actor who plays a stripper the film.

Cltte Bari/Warner Brothers PicturWarner Brothers hired the Karpel Group, a New York entertament marketg agency, to generate buzz onle and at gay bars and clubs. “It’s somethg that ptur gay men’s attentn and imagatns. Dennis Ayers, the edor of, a pop-culture Web se owned by the gay ble channel Logo, said ers of the se hated the first trailer bee “ was marketed as a romantic edy” that foced on Mr.

“It unrplayed the reason why gay men would be terted the film: the male stripper, ” he said. “They are happy to have gay men fd them attractive. Tatum were “100 percent supportive” of the movie’s outreach to gay filmgoers.

MAGIC MIKE'S MATT BOMER TALKS ABOUT BEG OUT AS GAY: WHAT BROUGHT HIM TO TEARS?

” Washgton/The New York TimAs much as the movie wks at a gay dience, was still mostly women who went to see “Magic Mike” over the weekend. Roger Gore, 42, said the gay quotient was low when he and five iends saw the movie Nashville. ”Donnajean Ward took a group of straight women and gay men to see the film Washgton.

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Matthew McConghey's gay fans are no doubt lookg forward to "Magic Mike, " which will feature scen of the star strippg down to a thong alongsi fellow heartthrobs Channg Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer and Joe Manganiello. But the 42-year-old hunk has always enjoyed a sizable gay fanbase, which he discs at length a new terview wh The Advote. "It’s much appreciated, " he tells wrer Brandon Voss of the support om the gay muny.

MATT BOMER ON BEG GAY: 'MAGIC MIKE' STAR TALKS ABOUT HIS SUBTLE COMG OUT

"You know, I have some good iends of my own who happen to be gay, and when to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anythg life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered whout opprsg anyone who’s different.

"I've had some great nversatns wh a lot of gay people about beg gay, when they knew, how they me out, and how they ’s all very tertg to me on a human level, bee we’re all this together. "McConghey, who has been the subject of a number of mors about his own sexualy, also rells a time when a gay iend ma a pass at him llege. I stopped him and said, 'Hang on, I’m not gay, but I like you as a iend.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

'" On how he'd react if one of his children wh fiancee Caa Alv eventually me out of the closet, he add, "There’s nothg me that n unrstand disowng your child bee they’re gay.

Magic Mike XXL’s Perfectly Sculpted Gay Panrg.

It’s the ntext of seeg the film I hold on to: A small group of gay iends and I picked the gayt theater we uld thk of (an off-brand cema New York’s Chelsea neighborhood), got liquored up on girly drks beforehand, and giggled wh light when, as we stepped off the lator on the mezzane, we saw that the theater had hired go-go boys to add ftivy to the openg night. Throughout all this, there was a sense that we were dog somethg slightly transgrsive—turng a movie that was ostensibly for straight women to one of the gayt events of the year.